Poetry

Questão	Responda
Ozymandias	Poet - Percy Bysshe Shelly 3 voices - poet, traveller, statue loss of power over passage of time
Ozymandias	My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: look on my works, ye mighty and despair
Ozymandias	Boundless and bare lone and level sands
Ozymandias	Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Prelude William Wordsworth	Epic poem, inspired by memories shows Pantheism - universe/nature is identical to divinity
Prelude	a huge peak, black and huge
Prelude	with voluntary power instinct upreared it head
Prelude	Small circles glittering idly in the moon until they melted all into one track of sparkling light
My Last Duchess Robert Browning	Based on true story. Duke shows around a visitor there to negotiate the Duke's marriage; is shown portrait of dead Duchess. The Duke talks about her flirty behaviour and gives away that he had her killed. He realises and quickly moves on with his visitor.
My Last Duchess	My gift of a nine hundred years old name
My Last Duchess	I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together
My Last Duchess	Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as of she were alive. I call that a piece a wonder
Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson	Based on battle in Crimean war where 600 British soldier ordered to attack 1,000's of Russians. The order was a mistake. Poem is designed to remember & honour them, is critical though
COTLB	Came through the jaws of death. Back from the mouth of hell
COTLB	Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon to the front of them
COTLB	Dactyllic rhythm - horses galloping.
Exposure Wilfred Owen	Poem is about WW1 soldiers facing cold weather. More dangerous than the enemy. Owen was poet and soldier, died weeks before Armistice.
Exposure	in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
Exposure	Flakes that flock, pause and renew
Exposure	the night is silent..
Storm on the Island Seamus Heaney	Irish poet. About power of nature, more powerful than man
Storm on the Island	Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale
Storm on the Island	we are bombarded by the empty air
Storm on the Island	Iambic pentameter (10 syllables) heartbeat - natural
Bayonet Charge Ted Hughes	From the perspective of a soldier as he charges to the enemy. Themes of countryside and human history - influenced his imagination
Bayonet Charge	Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
Bayonet Charge	His terror's touchy dynamite
Bayonet Charge	Enjambment lines 11,14,15 - slows action down reflecting soldier Caesura - 1st stanza uses - shows soldiers confusion
The Emigree Carol Rumens	Girl has left her country - recalling it. Shows power of a place over someone even if they left it a long time ago.
The Emigree	I comb its hair and love its shining eyes
The Emigree	My city comes to me in its own white plane
The Emigree	Stanzas with no established rhythm to suggest unsettled mind of the narrator
Checking Out Me History John Agard	Narrator talking about identity - how it links to knowledge of history. Talks about people from his cultural background who aren't taught in schools - ends with poet deciding to create his own identity based on his heritage
Checking Out Me History	Healing Star A yellow sunrise
Checking Out Me History	Dem tell me, Dem tell me, wha dem want to tell me
Checking Out Me History	Zulu - Waterloo Rhyming couplets Abbreviated syntax = irregular rhythm stanzas about British = simple rhymes= sound childish
Kamikaze Beatrice Garland	Suicide mission WW2 - goes out but changes his mind and returns home. Here he is ignored, having brought shame on his family. Contemporary message = suicide bombers 9/11
Kamikaze	One-way journey into history
Kamikaze	little fishing boats strung out like bunting
Kamikaze	And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die.

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